Search Results - "Caitlin S. Byrt"

Osmotic adjustment and energy limitations to plant growth in saline soil by Munns, Rana, Passioura, John B., Colmer, Timothy D., Byrt, Caitlin S.

“…Plant roots must exclude almost all of the Na⁺ and Cl⁻ in saline soil while taking up water, otherwise these ions would build up to high concentrations in…”
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Root cell wall solutions for crop plants in saline soils by Byrt, Caitlin S., Munns, Rana, Burton, Rachel A., Gilliham, Matthew, Wege, Stefanie

“…•Binding of Na+ to cell wall components might influence the passage of Na+.•Na+ can influence the binding of other ions and hinder the function of pectin…”
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Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants by Munns, Rana, Day, David A., Fricke, Wieland, Watt, Michelle, Arsova, Borjana, Barkla, Bronwyn J., Bose, Jayakumar, Byrt, Caitlin S., Chen, Zhong-Hua, Foster, Kylie J., Gilliham, Matthew, Henderson, Sam W., Jenkins, Colin L. D., Kronzucker, Herbert J., Miklavcic, Stanley J., Plett, Darren, Roy, Stuart J., Shabala, Sergey, Shelden, Megan C., Soole, Kathleen L., Taylor, Nicolas L., Tester, Mark, Wege, Stefanie, Wegner, Lars H., Tyerman, Stephen D.

“…Agriculture is expanding into regions that are affected by salinity. This review considers the energetic costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants and…”
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Non‐selective cation channel activity of aquaporin AtPIP2;1 regulated by Ca2+ and pH by Byrt, Caitlin S., Zhao, Manchun, Kourghi, Mohamad, Bose, Jayakumar, Henderson, Sam W., Qiu, Jiaen, Gilliham, Matthew, Schultz, Carolyn, Schwarz, Manuel, Ramesh, Sunita A., Yool, Andrea, Tyerman, Steve

“…The aquaporin AtPIP2;1 is an abundant plasma membrane intrinsic protein in Arabidopsis thaliana that is implicated in stomatal closure, and is highly expressed…”
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Application of Nano-Silicon Dioxide Improves Salt Stress Tolerance in Strawberry Plants by Avestan, Saber, Ghasemnezhad, Mahmood, Esfahani, Masoud, Byrt, Caitlin S.

“…Silicon application can improve productivity outcomes for salt stressed plants. Here, we describe how strawberry plants respond to treatments including various…”
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Phosphorylation influences water and ion channel function of AtPIP2;1 by Qiu, Jiaen, McGaughey, Samantha A., Groszmann, Michael, Tyerman, Stephen D., Byrt, Caitlin S.

“…The phosphorylation state of two serine residues within the C‐terminal domain of AtPIP2;1 (S280, S283) regulates its plasma membrane localization in response…”
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Structural variations in wheat HKT1;5 underpin differences in Na+ transport capacity by Xu, Bo, Waters, Shane, Byrt, Caitlin S., Plett, Darren, Tyerman, Stephen D., Tester, Mark, Munns, Rana, Hrmova, Maria, Gilliham, Matthew

“…An important trait associated with the salt tolerance of wheat is the exclusion of sodium ions (Na + ) from the shoot. We have previously shown that the sodium…”
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Exploring aquaporin functions during changes in leaf water potential by Byrt, Caitlin S., Zhang, Rose Y., Magrath, Isobel, Chan, Kai Xun, De Rosa, Annamaria, McGaughey, Samantha

“…Maintenance of optimal leaf tissue humidity is important for plant productivity and food security. Leaf humidity is influenced by soil and atmospheric water…”
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HKT1;5-Like Cation Transporters Linked to Na⁺ Exclusion Loci in Wheat, Nax2 and Kna1 by Byrt, Caitlin S, Platten, J. Damien, Spielmeyer, Wolfgang, James, Richard A, Lagudah, Evans S, Dennis, Elizabeth S, Tester, Mark, Munns, Rana

“…Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) has a greater ability to exclude Na⁺ from its leaves and is more salt tolerant than durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. subsp…”
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Divalent Cations Regulate the Ion Conductance Properties of Diverse Classes of Aquaporins by Kourghi, Mohamad, Nourmohammadi, Saeed, Pei, Jinxin V, Qiu, Jiaen, McGaughey, Samantha, Tyerman, Stephen D, Byrt, Caitlin S, Yool, Andrea J

“…Aquaporins (AQPs) are known to facilitate water and solute fluxes across barrier membranes. An increasing number of AQPs are being found to serve as ion…”
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Prospecting for Energy-Rich Renewable Raw Materials: Agave Leaf Case Study by Corbin, Kendall R, Byrt, Caitlin S, Bauer, Stefan, DeBolt, Seth, Chambers, Don, Holtum, Joseph A M, Karem, Ghazwan, Henderson, Marilyn, Lahnstein, Jelle, Beahan, Cherie T, Bacic, Antony, Fincher, Geoffrey B, Betts, Natalie S, Burton, Rachel A

“…Plant biomass from different species is heterogeneous, and this diversity in composition can be mined to identify materials of value to fuel and chemical…”
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A high-throughput yeast approach to characterize aquaporin permeabilities: Profiling the Arabidopsis PIP aquaporin sub-family by Groszmann, Michael, De Rosa, Annamaria, Chen, Weihua, Qiu, Jiaen, McGaughey, Samantha A, Byrt, Caitlin S, Evans, John R

“…Engineering membrane transporters to achieve desired functionality is reliant on availability of experimental data informing structure-function relationships…”
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A Survey of Barley PIP Aquaporin Ionic Conductance Reveals Ca2+-Sensitive HvPIP2;8 Na+ and K+ Conductance by Tran, Sen Thi Huong, Horie, Tomoaki, Imran, Shahin, Qiu, Jiaen, McGaughey, Samantha, Byrt, Caitlin S., Tyerman, Stephen D., Katsuhara, Maki

“…Some plasma membrane intrinsic protein (PIP) aquaporins can facilitate ion transport. Here we report that one of the 12 barley PIPs (PIP1 and PIP2) tested,…”
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Are sucrose transporter expression profiles linked with patterns of biomass partitioning in Sorghum phenotypes? by Milne, Ricky J, Byrt, Caitlin S, Patrick, John W, Grof, Christopher P L

“…Sorghum bicolor is a genetically diverse C4 monocotyledonous species, encompassing varieties capable of producing high grain yields as well as sweet types…”
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Prospecting for Energy-Rich Renewable Raw Materials: Sorghum Stem Case Study by Byrt, Caitlin S, Betts, Natalie S, Tan, Hwei-Ting, Lim, Wai Li, Ermawar, Riksfardini A, Nguyen, Hai Yen, Shirley, Neil J, Lahnstein, Jelle, Corbin, Kendall, Fincher, Geoffrey B, Knauf, Vic, Burton, Rachel A

“…Sorghum vegetative tissues are becoming increasingly important for biofuel production. The composition of sorghum stem tissues is influenced by genotype,…”
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Adaptable and Multifunctional Ion-Conducting Aquaporins by Tyerman, Stephen D, McGaughey, Samantha A, Qiu, Jiaen, Yool, Andrea J, Byrt, Caitlin S

“…Aquaporins function as water and neutral solute channels, signaling hubs, disease virulence factors, and metabolon components. We consider plant aquaporins…”
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Staple crops equipped for alkaline soils by Byrt, Caitlin S., Millar, A. Harvey, Munns, Rana

“…Gene editing boosts the yields of sorghum, rice and millet grown in alkaline soils…”
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Major genes for Na+exclusion, Nax1 and Nax2 (wheat HKT1;4 and HKT1;5), decrease Na+accumulation in bread wheat leaves under saline and waterlogged conditions by James, Richard A., Blake, Carol, Byrt, Caitlin S., Munns, Rana

“…Two major genes for Na + exclusion in durum wheat, Nax1 and Nax2, that were previously identified as the Na + transporters TmHKT1;4-A2 and TmHKT1;5-A, were…”
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Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene by Munns, Rana, James, Richard A, Xu, Bo, Athman, Asmini, Conn, Simon J, Jordans, Charlotte, Byrt, Caitlin S, Hare, Ray A, Tyerman, Stephen D, Tester, Mark, Plett, Darren, Gilliham, Matthew

“…Salinization of cultivated land and the need to increase agricultural productivity make the development of salt-resistant crops imperative. Field trials show…”
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Grape marc as a source of carbohydrates for bioethanol: Chemical composition, pre-treatment and saccharification by Corbin, Kendall R., Hsieh, Yves S.Y., Betts, Natalie S., Byrt, Caitlin S., Henderson, Marilyn, Stork, Jozsef, DeBolt, Seth, Fincher, Geoffrey B., Burton, Rachel A.

“…•The chemical composition of white and red grape marc was determined.•Marc carbohydrates were characterized using enzyme digests, HPLC and MALDI-TOF-MS.•Dilute…”
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